Good morning, Here's your Tuesday edition of Asia AI News! A hard-hitting story from the New York Tim
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Good morning, Here’s your Tuesday edition of Asia AI News!
A hard-hitting story from the New York Times filed late on Sunday about the use of Intel and Nvidia chips to power a supercomputing centre that tracks people under surveillance in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. As pointed out by NYT, it raises questions about the tech industry’s responsibility (including many questions that tech companies don’t really want to be put on the spot about). Among other things, it neatly highlights how lagging government policy and regulation, even if followed to the letter by tech firms, provides little protection from government misuse, ethical risks or threats to corporate reputation. However, this is not purely a tech issue, it’s becoming a reputational issue for a wide range of businesses from fashion brands Boohoo, H&M and Nike to Volkswagen, following years of reporting on human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Scroll down for stories from China, India and South Korea. Have a good day! /Carrington
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Zhuhai dangles incentives to lure start-ups in four key industries under Greater Bay Area drive
#China #startups - Tech start-ups are reaping the rewards of Zhuhai’s aggressive incentives to promote the city as a base for four major industries – semiconductors, artificial intelligence, biomedicine and new materials – under its “smart city” development plan. (SCMP)
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QA mentor acquires robotic process automation company in India
#India #US #acquisition - QA Mentor, Inc., the global award-winning, leading software quality assurance and testing services provider, announced the acquisition of Step One Step Ahead, a privately held software consulting company in Mumbai, India specializing in Robotic Process Automation, Robotic Application Monitoring, Robotic Test Automation, Bot Auditing and Robotic Training & Education. (PRweb)
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China: Industrial robot sales drop last year
#China #robotics - The China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA) declared on Monday, November 23, that the China’s manufacturing robot market carried on contracting last year but stayed the world’s largest for the seventh straight year. (MENA FN)
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How Southeast Asia can mind the artificial intelligence gap
#ASEAN #AIpolicy - Southeast Asia, often touted as one of the fast-growing regions in the world, has been undergoing something of an artificial intelligence (AI) renaissance in the past couple of years. AI holds out huge potential benefits for ASEAN – if the region can close some crucial shortfalls. (Techwire Asia)
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Ravi Shankar Prasad moots leveraging AI for voice-enabled interface of UMANG
#India #AIpolicy - Minister for IT and Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said the possibility of using AI for developing voice-enabled interface of UMANG (the Government of India’s unified services app) should be looked at to make it even more accessible to those who are not familiar with digital language. (Financial Express)
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South Korea starts test on self-driving public transportation, delivery in Seoul and 5 others
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CVG Airport partners with ThorDrive on driverless tech
#SouthKorea #US #AVs - As another first for CVG, ThorDrive (headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio), is bringing autonomous vehicle technology to the airport’s campus. Through a recently enacted airport ordinance, autonomous vehicles and equipment can now operate on airport property. ( Aviation Pros)
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IIT Madras develops solar-powered autonomous survey craft for Indian ports, inland waterways
#India #MASS - Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed a solar-powered unmanned autonomous survey craft for Indian ports and inland waterways. According to the team, the system can undertake autonomous hydrographic and oceanographic surveys and provide real-time data transmission over a long distance. (Economic Times)
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Foster + Partners wins competition to design Guangming Hub, a new transport oriented development in China
#China #UK #smartcities - The UK’s Foster + Partners has just unveiled its winning design scheme for a new urban destination in China, the Guangming Hub located on the high-speed rail connecting Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. The proposal outlines a “smart city that supports the flow of people and goods with robust infrastructure, effective transport networks, reliable public services, and lush greenery”. (Arch Daily)
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Intel and Nvidia chips power a Chinese surveillance system
#China #US #Xinjiang - Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities, raising questions about the tech industry’s responsibility. (New York Times - subscription)
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White House weighs new action against Beijing
#China #US #tradewar - Senior Trump administration officials say they are pushing for new hard-line measures against Beijing, including creating an informal alliance of Western nations to jointly retaliate when China uses its trading power to coerce countries. (Wall Street Journal - subscription)
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Economist: Biden should rescind Trump's trade and technology wars against China
#China #US #tradewar - Biden should heed U.S. businesses’ and realists’ call to rescind Trump’s “crazy” trade and technology wars against China. Trump policies hurt the U.S. just as much if not more than China. (CGTN)
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About Carrington Malin
Carrington Malin is a UAE-based entrepreneur, marketer and writer who focuses on emerging technologies.
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